Misunderstandings
Cultural collisions can cause disturbances and misunderstandings, that lead to harm to others and can even cause death. Cultural collisions can also cause people to change, and in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there are numerous characteristic changes. Okonkwo’s sense of identity was challenged when he was banished from his home village of Umuofia. This hurts Okonkwo because, he grew up with everyone disrespecting his father, and he didn't want to have the same fate. “The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land. The crime was of two kinds, male and female. Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent. He could return to the clan after seven years.” (94) He was ashamed he was banished, but he committed a crime and wanted to prove to the other clansmen that he had more pride so he would come back after seven years. So much can change in seven years. …show more content…
They were the people that came into his village and questioned what he and his fellow clansmen were doing. The missionaries told the clansmen that their way was wrong. Not only did Okonkwo question them, but at times he had questioned himself. “When nearly two years later Obierika paid another visit to his friend in exile the circumstances were less happy. The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages.” (107) The missionaries came and things changed. The arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta. (107) Not only did things
Cultural collisions can cause disturbances and misunderstandings, that lead to harm to others and can even cause death. Cultural collisions can also cause people to change, and in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there are numerous characteristic changes. Okonkwo’s sense of identity was challenged when he was banished from his home village of Umuofia. This hurts Okonkwo because, he grew up with everyone disrespecting his father, and he didn't want to have the same fate. “The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land. The crime was of two kinds, male and female. Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent. He could return to the clan after seven years.” (94) He was ashamed he was banished, but he committed a crime and wanted to prove to the other clansmen that he had more pride so he would come back after seven years. So much can change in seven years. …show more content…
They were the people that came into his village and questioned what he and his fellow clansmen were doing. The missionaries told the clansmen that their way was wrong. Not only did Okonkwo question them, but at times he had questioned himself. “When nearly two years later Obierika paid another visit to his friend in exile the circumstances were less happy. The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages.” (107) The missionaries came and things changed. The arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta. (107) Not only did things